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Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World
by
Warren Berger (Goodreads Author),
Bruce Mau (Goodreads Author)
Read Warren Berger's posts on the Penguin Blog.
The first book to reveal how thinking like a designer can help solve the greatest challenges we face in business, society, and our daily lives.
What can we learn from the ways great designers think—and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated desig...more
The first book to reveal how thinking like a designer can help solve the greatest challenges we face in business, society, and our daily lives.
What can we learn from the ways great designers think—and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated desig...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
October 15th 2009
by Penguin Press HC, The
(first published 2009)
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Totally loved it. Some really great insights into design, and how design is becoming far more important to companies that want to survive and thrive in today’s world. Many companies think design is merely the packaging, the glossy veneer so to speak. But smart companies realize that design needs to extend not just to how the product looks, but everything. They need to design the whole experience, from how the product looks, but more importantly how it works, and the detailed research that goes i...more
I've been reading a lot lately about design -- it's a vastly misunderstood word. This book helped bring some clarity around the issue. After all, we're all designers.
Some highlights:
Design is a way of looking at the world with an eye toward changing it. To do that, a designer must be able to see not just what is, but what might be. And seeing is only the beginning. Designers are also makers. They take the faint glimmer of possibility and make it visible and real to others.
Ask stupid questions...more
Some highlights:
Design is a way of looking at the world with an eye toward changing it. To do that, a designer must be able to see not just what is, but what might be. And seeing is only the beginning. Designers are also makers. They take the faint glimmer of possibility and make it visible and real to others.
Ask stupid questions...more
Changed the way I think about the word design. Great case studies on designing better processes and solutions. Changed the way I look at the world around me. I have always been able to identify inefficiencies and bad design, but this book tipped me over the edge towards designing better processes.
The term design is used very broadly and the designers mentioned are often made out to be gods/heroes but other than that an inspiring and well written book for me an outsider to the design industry.
The term design is used very broadly and the designers mentioned are often made out to be gods/heroes but other than that an inspiring and well written book for me an outsider to the design industry.
Full of inspiring stories about design thinking in a more general context, but I think it somewhat lacks information density. Maybe it is because I was looking for something with a bit more practical advices as to how the whole design process works, i.e. other than headlines like "Ask stupid questions", "Go deep" and "Make hope visible". I would recommend reading the book nonetheless, just don't feel like you have to read the entire book.
This book was passed out by our VP as a "must-read." I assumed it was about graphic design, but it was about so much more. I loved the multiple case studies about how design - whether in a product, a process, or an idea - can really be transformative, far beyond what we usually consider. This book is about opening your mind to a new way of thinking and a shift in worldview. Very much worth the read.
Excellent book. Design is no longer about posters and logos. Plenty of interesting personal stories about why cross pollination of different disciplines leads to results that may never have happened without.
Very applicable to industries and professions outside of design, and foreshadows our professional, personal and artistic interdependence
Very applicable to industries and professions outside of design, and foreshadows our professional, personal and artistic interdependence
Brings to light so many ideas about how to use design to improve the objects and lives around us. Some bits get a little slow and repetitive, but overall it has become a bit of a bible for me.
A practitioner's ready reckon-er on making the easy and difficult things happen. The following silver bullets embody the ready reckon-er themes, categorized in 4 fields where design thinking does apply.
Universal: Ask stupid questions, Jump fences, Make hope visible
Business: Go deep, Work the metaphor,
Social: Face consequences, Embrace constraints
Personal: Design for emergence, Begin anywhere
The following 2 videos summarize the ethos of the book.
http://glimmersite.com/about-glimmers...
http://ww...more
Universal: Ask stupid questions, Jump fences, Make hope visible
Business: Go deep, Work the metaphor,
Social: Face consequences, Embrace constraints
Personal: Design for emergence, Begin anywhere
The following 2 videos summarize the ethos of the book.
http://glimmersite.com/about-glimmers...
http://ww...more
This is good book about design, although it is a perspective of the outside looking in. If you don't know who Bruce Mau is, you need to read this book!
Interesting and what sounds like common since in many areas.
Jan 19, 2010
Kim
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Love this book, tons of ideas to apply to my work!
Absolutely fascinating book on the way Design Thinking has changed the world, for better and worse, and what current Designers are doing to change everyone's life for the better. Every case study mentioned is amazing, my favorite being how Deborah Adler has revolutionized Target's pharmacy to make it easy to understand medication, and harder to take the wrong thing.
The worst part of this book is that it makes me want to go back to school and get into Design!
The worst part of this book is that it makes me want to go back to school and get into Design!
Don't whine, design.
Good case studies
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This a book by designers who apply the term ‘design’ (too broadly) to encompass almost everything that is invented, created, painted, machined, or constructed. The main thing I enjoyed about this book was some of the creative examples of design used to solve hard problems, but it was a bit snooty from the design perspective and it referred to the great designer so and so and the amazing work of so and so else so much that it became annoying. Still a worthwhile read.
I liked it. The book is based on an idea that everyone is a designer if trying to make anything better. It's motivational and optimistic.
Jul 31, 2010
Nathanael Boehm
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Warren Berger's Glimmer is a practical book on design in business and social innovation based around ten principles covering ethnography, creative thinking and working within constraints.
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Mini biography of Bruce Mau, mini bio of some interesting products.
An amazing book to help one understand the value of design thinking not only in business but in creating change in the world. It also discusses the brilliant work of designer, Bruce Mau, a evolutionary thinker.
Enlightening book that encourages us to think like designers. Well-written, engrossing, and tips are directly applicable to all aspects of business and life.
A good intro to design thinking, and after reading this book, I decided to stop reading too many more design thinking books...
Engaging book about design, innovation, and engineering customer/user experience.
Jan 25, 2010
Laura
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This book is full of insights for a junior designer like myself.
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I’m an author and speaker about innovation, creativity and the power of questioning. I also write novels under the name W.K. Berger.
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